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Making the The Keyhole a fanwork, community and news platform ("for real" this time, completly ignoring the [http://kingdomheartsfanon.wikia.com/ Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki] again) may not work out this time too.<br><br> | Making the The Keyhole a fanwork, community and news platform ("for real" this time, completly ignoring the [http://kingdomheartsfanon.wikia.com/ Kingdom Hearts Fanon Wiki] again) may not work out this time too.<br><br> | ||
The merging process itself will be a lot of work. Thanks for pointing out the basic working sites The Inexistent, but there are many areas that need to be discussed. The Keyhole goes different ways in the article design by now and it would be a real shame to diminish all their effort and hard work just to get our way across. On the other hand our image renovation and renaming project is 99% complete and that was a real pain to achieve.}} | The merging process itself will be a lot of work. Thanks for pointing out the basic working sites The Inexistent, but there are many areas that need to be discussed. The Keyhole goes different ways in the article design by now and it would be a real shame to diminish all their effort and hard work just to get our way across. On the other hand our image renovation and renaming project is 99% complete and that was a real pain to achieve.}} | ||
{{DTN|time=02:06, 22 December 2011 (UTC)|text=Firstly I am trying very hard to resist using my Vriska theme. So, so hard. The effort alone is draining. | |||
Wikia never said they will not allow for us to delete pages. They said they will not allow for us to delete '''content'''. That is extremely different. For example, take a look at the ''Final Fantasy'' Wiki. Instead of having individual articles for every weapon and accessory from each game, they use '''List Articles'''. Examples are "List of Weapons in Final Fantasy VI" or "List of Armor in Final Fantasy XII". This retains all content, since weapon and accessory articles are most quantitative data. All of the qualitative abilities and descriptions can easily be described very briefly in one column of such lists. This would allow hundreds of articles to be taken out of KHWikia without losing content itself. | |||
Now, as far as the terms of the merge go, let me say this: this wiki is not "inactive." We are not trying to "absorb" KHWikia at all. Rather, we're going to combine efforts on both URL's while completely reallocating our division of space across the two wikis. Rather than having two wikis with one being more fan-oriented and relaxed than the other, one site will function as an encyclopedia, and one site will function as a fan site. | |||
As far as TI's contract thing goes, I'm all for what he says as far as articles go. Images, however, I have to side with Kryten. While a fan-made render can be aesthetically superior to that which SE produced, fans will recognize an image produced by SE much easier. We also don't want to start producing material as just fan-made that could appear as official. After all, we are a professional wiki covering official topics, and therefore official media should be used whenever possible. | |||
Personal things, like the arena and Puzzling Aqua, I would like to see kept on the fan site, moreso for the latter than the former. I think puzzling games and forum contests really do not belong on this wiki, '''''especially''''' if we are trying to divide up content on professional wiki vs. fan material. I mean, that's just going right against the flow we are trying to create. I suggest we move these contests and such over to KHWikia's forums. The arena is the only thing that is a personal contest for the fans that I would allow to stay here, simply because of its ties to the professional wiki. Even then, however, I would not object to leaving it on KHWikia. However, two arenas on one wiki is just unnecessary, especially for the ''wiki'' side of the collaboration. The same goes for roleplay: absolutely, 100% not on the wiki side. Please leave that completely on the fansite. | |||
Staff needs its own discussion. I am going to say this as honestly as I possibly can: '''we have too many staff members claiming to be active when in reality they do not even check or appear as "online" hardly ever in the Recent Changes.''' It is unfair to the wiki and more importantly to this community for staff positions to remain unopened because a few individuals do not want to do this place justice by admitting inactivity. Yes, '''inactivity'''. Not retirement, guys! I just went inactive. You can still edit all you like and you don't even get placed with all the inactive users. Forreal. It is for this reason that users who work their rumps off on this wiki cannot be promoted, which is quite frankly unfair and unjust. The reason I bring this up is because if we fuse staffs due to size, we are making an extremely skewed judgment, because our staff realistically is not as large as the page says it is. Forreal. | |||
Walkthroughs. I have always supported user-generated walkthroughs, but KHWiki also likes to produce official, wiki-created walkthroughs. I suggest we compromise and just allow both to be made and advertised, but with the wiki-created ones being notated as "officially" by the wiki's community as a whole. | |||
Please clean up the Main Page. I've said this too many times so asdfjkl;. Also, the skin should not be the job of just two users. I think this should be held in a large forum between the two wikis with perhaps a few users orchestrating the coding and creation of it. The ideas and brainstorming should be done by the entire community. | |||
And I didn't even use Homestuck speak once!!!!!!!! ::::)}} | |||